Efficiency....what methods do you use to make a job go easier?

To answer the original question a little bit better - I'm definitely guilty of creating the snowball effect. Being a perfectionist/overthinker with textbook ADD does not help that trait at all. I can't replace/build/fab/restore something and put it into something that is dirty/crusty/rusty. No way. I tend to think about every last detail 17 ways to Sunday before I am willing to commit to whatever it is and call it done.

Over the last 10 years I have lived that dysfunction with my Duster. At this point he only thing I have not touched on my car is the vinyl top and exterior paint. If I hadn't cared to make the underside, trunk and engine bay clean I probably would have been a lot farther along on it.

I also tend to stop individual projects 3/4 of the way through them which is a really bad habit. If I could finish whatever I was doing 100% then I have no doubt I'd be farther along in my build. It's really inefficient to have multiple half-done projects.

I have plenty of examples of that. Earlier this year I made all new transmission cooler lines and mocked up the new cooler under the trunk pan. I got almost all the way done with it except one last section over the rear wheel arch. It's been like that for months. Same thing with my brake lines. They have been 80% done but one last section is still unfinished. I started that job last year.

My wiring project has been the worst for that. The problem with that particular item is that it kinda needs to go in before everything else. Before I can even think about really putting the car back together in earnest the wiring should be done and in.

Alas, I've been looking at a half-done harness for almost two years. It's taking up huge amount of space on my bench. if I could complete it it would be a huge step forward. But I keep thinking about different ways to execute my ideas or some caveat comes up that I hadn't considered and it makes me switch directions for the umpteenth time. Analysis is paralysis.

Or the interior of my car. I got 3/4 of the way through fabricating a rear seat delete panel and firewall but stopped short of completing it. Been that way for over a year.

All that stuff is at a standstill though because I switched directions and decided to rebuild my engine. I started on that this summer and I'm almost done with it. We'll see how long it takes me to finish it.

Perfectionism is the enemy of progress.